Casting Clinic/Scrub Session

There are a TON of student interest groups here at CHM. Basically every medical specialty has an interest group, which offer a ton of different speakers, panels, or clinics that give insight into what their specialty is like. I have gone to several events that these groups have offered, but my two favorites have been the Casting Clinic and the Scrub Session.

If you want to shadow surgeries, you must first get trained in how to make sure you are providing a sterile environment for the patient that is undergoing surgery. There is a meticulous process that must be followed, starting with washing your hands like CRAZY, to how your robe is tied, to the proper way to enter and exit the operating room.  I knew that this was an important part of surgery, but to actually learn the process was pretty awesome.

Casting Clinic: The Family Medicine Interst group put on event that taught us how to put on/ take off a cast! We partnered up and put on all of the materials. We then took a lot of permanent markers and signed each others casts like we were in Jr. High (obviously!!). Finally, we learned how to use the saw to take off the casts. The final step was definitely the most nerve racking part of the process, because we were afraid of hurting each other, but no one was injured! It was such a fun clinic...I can't wait until I put a cast on someone who actually has a broken bone!